Still smarting from the ICJ’s judgment last week awarding rights to Nicaragua over territorial waters claimed by Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos announced that Colombia is withdrawing from the 1948 Bogota treaty granting jurisdiction to the ICJ to resolve disputes between signatories. Since Colombia was obviously the host to the treaty’s creation and (until now) had made no limitations on its obligations under that treaty, it seems like a pretty big deal. Colombia has also not accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ under the ICJ Statute. So this is a blow (albeit a non-retroactive one) to the ICJ’s reach and authority in Latin America.

July 24, 2015Recent International Legal Scholarship on the Crisis in Ukraine
As the fighting in Ukraine continues into its second year, recent reports have variously focused on the promise of a weapons withdrawal and the risk that there is the opening of a new front opening. Recent international legal scholarship has attempte...